A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 6, 1948

When TIME'S Lester Bernstein and Researcher Jean Sulzberger turned up at
Actress Tallulah Bankhead's country home recently for a 3 p.m.
pre-cover story (TIME, Nov. 22) interview, Tallulah, "up and dressed,"
met them at the door and began to talk. After 20 breathless minutes she
suddenly stopped her torrential discourse and said: "Now, ask me
another question." Says Miss Sulzberger: "We hadn't even opened our
mouths."

Three hours later they came away feeling as if they had been through a
small Alabama "nawther." It had been a tough struggle even to get their...